Identifying tourism opportunities & challenges
Destination Action Plans (DAPs) have been developed by local communities to identify opportunities and challenges for tourism in their area and to establish and implement action plans to support goals for their community. With funding support from the Department of State Growth, we have been working with communities to support them in the development of local Destination Action Plans.
These plans are supplied to the Department of State Growth and used as a reference point for Government when considering priorities for communities. Each Destination Action Plan is managed by a local steering committee who welcome interested community members to join their team.
The planning process brought together people that benefit from the visitor economy – local government, state government agencies, industry and the community to develop plans that identified the challenges and opportunities and to set achievable priorities that support:
- Growing visitor numbers
- Increasing length of stay
- Increasing visitor expenditure
- Increasing visitor dispersal (geographically and seasonally)
- Increasing visitor satisfaction.
Contacts and current plans
Spring Bay, Orford and Triabunna
- Spring Bay Tourism Group: Angela Turvey 0439 114 996 / [email protected]
- Spring Bay Plan
Swansea
- Chamber of Commerce and Tourism: Kelsey Walker 0419 334 813 / [email protected]
- Swansea Plan
Freycinet
- Freycinet Association Industry: Liz Swain 0418 331 963 / [email protected]
- Freycinet Plan
East Coast Wine Trail
- Glenn Travers 0499 901 109 / [email protected]
- Great Eastern Wine Trail Plan
Bicheno
- Bicheno Community Development Association: Tony McLeod 0412 631 821 / [email protected]
- Bicheno Plan
St Helens
- St Helens DAP Group: Matt Gibson 0418 332 717 / [email protected]
- St Helens Plan
Fingal Valley
Please contact us if you’re interested in participating in this group
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The Tasmanian tourism industry acknowledges the Tasmanian Aboriginal people and their enduring custodianship of lutruwita / Tasmania. We honour 40,000 years of uninterrupted care, protection and belonging to these islands, before the invasion and colonisation of European settlement. As a tourism industry that welcomes visitors to these lands, we acknowledge our responsibility to represent to our visitors Tasmania’s deep and complex history, fully, respectfully and truthfully. We acknowledge the Aboriginal people who continue to care for this country today. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present. We honour their stories, songs, art, and culture, and their aspirations for the future of their people and these lands. We respectfully ask that tourism be a part of that future.